The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
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In the constellation of Cygnus, or Central Connecticut
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
10849 Posts
In the constellation of Cygnus, or Central Connecticut
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| | Player's Handbook, pg 116 has the description of the repeating crossbow. Picture is on pg 118. | |
Leaning towards giving 4e the Digitus Impudicus
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Ctulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
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Hero of the Force
Siddartha of Suburbia
Underboss
2277 Posts
| | 04/30/2005 11:06 PM |
| Do you want exotic or just different?
i'm partial to javelins, the idea of dozens of javelins hurled towards enemy lines all at once is a little more intimidating than all those weenie little arrows.
You could always try simple firearms, flintlock style. | |
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kestrel.ca
Underboss
1669 Posts
| | 05/01/2005 1:20 AM |
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Originally posted by Siddartha of Suburbia
You could always try simple firearms, flintlock style.
Which I know were covered in the DMG 3.0. Not sure if they're still in there for 3.5.
Options from Arms & Equipment Guide:
Halfling skiprocks (able to hit two opponents if thrown right)
Bolas (ranged trip attack)
Gnome calculus (oversized sling hurls flasks of acid, alchemists fire, etc)
Chakram (think Xena, Warrior Princess)
Elven Double-bow (a bow designed to shoot two arrows at once) | |
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kyrin
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| | 05/01/2005 1:22 AM |
| This month's Dragon has a number of new weapons, including the pilum, a spear designed to disable an enemy's shield.
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| | 05/01/2005 1:29 AM |
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WakeXX
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10122 Posts
Edinboro PA
| | 05/01/2005 1:33 AM |
| | Greek Fire,or better yet...kender dipped in greek fire![)] | | | |
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Goldmoon
Sergeant
986 Posts
| | 05/01/2005 2:34 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Siddartha of Suburbia
i'm partial to javelins, the idea of dozens of javelins hurled towards enemy lines all at once is a little more intimidating than all those weenie little arrows.
Frist wave would be javelins...when the enemy closed in switch to throwing axes...then to melee.
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Hero of the Force
Siddartha of Suburbia
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2277 Posts
| | 05/01/2005 9:17 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Goldmoon
quote:
Originally posted by Siddartha of Suburbia
i'm partial to javelins, the idea of dozens of javelins hurled towards enemy lines all at once is a little more intimidating than all those weenie little arrows.
Frist wave would be javelins...when the enemy closed in switch to throwing axes...then to melee.
I like that....
It's gotta be intimidating to face foes with skill in such diverse weapons. Whenever you see someone do something you can't you go "ooh. aaah". | |
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
10849 Posts
In the constellation of Cygnus, or Central Connecticut
| | 05/01/2005 10:24 AM |
| | Fireball. The ultimate ranged weapon. | |
Leaning towards giving 4e the Digitus Impudicus
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Ctulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
10849 Posts
In the constellation of Cygnus, or Central Connecticut
| | 05/01/2005 10:26 AM |
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Originally posted by wicked cool
Im setting up a millitary campaign in which the pcs will be accompanied by a group of soldiers. standard crossbows and bows wont do. Has anyone designed a repeating crossbow or use firearms in adventures or anything else. im looking for ideas
Why would you NOT use longbows? I know they are not very exciting or exotic but they have the best range. Why chuck a javelin or hand axe, or spear, or dagger when you can launch volleys of arrows from 100 feet away.
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Leaning towards giving 4e the Digitus Impudicus
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Ctulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
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Hero of the Force
Siddartha of Suburbia
Underboss
2277 Posts
| | 05/01/2005 10:55 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Ghendar
quote:
Originally posted by wicked cool
Im setting up a millitary campaign in which the pcs will be accompanied by a group of soldiers. standard crossbows and bows wont do. Has anyone designed a repeating crossbow or use firearms in adventures or anything else. im looking for ideas
Why would you NOT use longbows? I know they are not very exciting or exotic but they have the best range. Why chuck a javelin or hand axe, or spear, or dagger when you can launch volleys of arrows from 100 feet away.
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I know I don't always go with the most practical options for either my characters or my NPCs, but for me that's what puts the fantasy in the game. Strange sites and heroism doesn't always involve monsters. But that's just my style, I'm not critisisng the use of longbows. | |
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wicked cool
Underboss
2019 Posts
| | 05/01/2005 11:01 AM |
| | longbows and repeating crosbows are cool and im working on a design for a repeating crossbow. looking to create a shootout between the pc/npcs and the enemy hiding out in a farm house. Like something you would see out of a western | |
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
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10849 Posts
In the constellation of Cygnus, or Central Connecticut
| | 05/01/2005 11:20 AM |
| | Well, if you're going for a western shoot out type of feel then everyone needs to have repeating hand crossbows. | |
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Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
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brazenwood
Sergeant
382 Posts
Etowah NC
| | 05/01/2005 12:04 PM |
| In my world the crystal wizards have invented magical cannons, basicaly giant sized staffs charged with various spells, like a cannon of fireballs. In D&D, if you want to keep it fantastical wands are pretty much guns, give em wands of magic missile and you're good to go. You can't even miss, LOL.
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Goldmoon
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986 Posts
| | 05/01/2005 12:52 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Ghendar
Why would you NOT use longbows? I know they are not very exciting or exotic but they have the best range. Why chuck a javelin or hand axe, or spear, or dagger when you can launch volleys of arrows from 100 feet away.
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May be for simple book-keeping.
wicked cool campaign had the PCs accompany by a group of soldiers.. he would have to keep track for may be 20+ quivers, if he wanted the shoot-out in the farm house to happen. Or simply a different style of combat, like the Romans had skrimishers threw javelins at enemy lines before their armour infantry move up.
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Oni
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1131 Posts
| | 05/01/2005 1:33 PM |
| | The Thri-kreen on Athas use Chu'Tra (off memory here probley way off). Imagine an oversized Shuriken. I have always liked them and threatened to use them. | |
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Hero of the Force
Siddartha of Suburbia
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2277 Posts
| | 05/01/2005 3:52 PM |
| | looking back along the thread my favorite idea was the skipping stones. I can just imagine 20 being hurled at once and richoheting all over the place. That's just hilarious. | |
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Slapdragon
Warrior
268 Posts
| | 05/01/2005 6:46 PM |
| You might try the battle dart. A medieval weapon, it comes in small or large variants (the large one can be seen in use by Kjell Nilsson playing "Lord Humungous" in the Road Warrior to kill Vernon Wells (Wez)during the final road battle. While the dart of the game is designed to disable an opponent, the battle dart with its three prongs and front heavy design is suppose to be used en masse to kill enemy even in heavier armor.
Military units use the darts when advancing by throwing them in tall, steep arcs against a prepared defender to force them to redeploy their shields to meet the threat. If the enemy does not "turtle" their shields, they get killed by a rain of the heavy darts. If they do, then they loose the advantage of the shield in meeting a charge. | |
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| | 05/01/2005 7:08 PM |
| GreekFire throwers, aka Flamethrowers might be interesting too. That would lead to the ocassional Kender covered in Greek Fire I belive.[:D]
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Greek Fire,or better yet...kender dipped in greek fire![)]
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wicked cool
Underboss
2019 Posts
| | 05/01/2005 9:50 PM |
| some of these ideas i like
am i the only one who likes kenders | |
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
10849 Posts
In the constellation of Cygnus, or Central Connecticut
| | 05/02/2005 7:15 AM |
| Kender need to DIE. Annoying little bugs.
Not quite as annoying as Gully Dwarves though. | |
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Hero of the Force
Siddartha of Suburbia
Underboss
2277 Posts
| | 05/02/2005 7:19 AM |
| | I thought kender were pretty funny in the first DL book I read, but then I read another, and another, and by then it was, enough already. Cleptomania is only cute for so long before it becomes frustrating. | |
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kestrel.ca
Underboss
1669 Posts
| | 05/02/2005 10:11 AM |
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Originally posted by Oni
The Thri-kreen on Athas use Chu'Tra (off memory here probley way off). Imagine an oversized Shuriken. I have always liked them and threatened to use them.
Chatkcha's the word. And they're in 3e as well. I know they're in Savage Species, and possibly other books too. | |
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kyrin
Commander
3139 Posts
| | 05/02/2005 10:56 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by wicked cool
some of these ideas i like
am i the only one who likes kenders
In my world, during the Great Race Wars (elf vs. drow, dwarves vs. duergar, gnomes vs. svirfneblin in a Loser Leaves the Surface World Parcheesi tournament -- the gnomes cheated) the kender were the first casualty. I mean, if every kender has a 10% chance for a useful magic item, and you kill 10 kender...
And thus do the kender pass from the memory of the world. I think the other races just wanted an excuse to kill all the little so-an-sos...
Back on topic, you might want to let firearms be exotic weapons (-4 to hit if not proficient) that don't do much damage (d6?) but crit on an 19 (or even 18?) or better with a x4 crit multiplier. When they hit a vital area, they hurt. They should also take an inconvenient amount of time to load (a round longer than a heavy crossbow?). You might have a 1 or 2 be a misfire or jam that takes an extra round to clear. Three ones in a row, and the gun blows up or is otherwise disabled.
Just a first pass. In my game, gunpowder is a dwarven military secret that they keep VERY secret (to the point of having human alchemists that discover it "disappear"), so I haven't given it that much thought.
JIM
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Zeb
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2026 Posts
| | 05/03/2005 8:47 PM |
| Go with the boomerang! [)]
Seriously, I like using both the atlatl (a stick that propels a small javelin: http://www.atlatl.com/) and the pilum (as was already mentioned). | |
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Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 05/04/2005 1:38 AM |
| I like that actually, they could even "circulate" coded texts with inacuracies in the formulas. Leading to the subsequent loud disapearances of several human alchemists.
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Originally posted by kyrin
Just a first pass. In my game, gunpowder is a dwarven military secret that they keep VERY secret (to the point of having human alchemists that discover it "disappear"), so I haven't given it that much thought.
JIM
aka kyrin
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